TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

If a site has a star before it, all of the resources are free for teachers to use in their classrooms.

PROBES

Pasco - http://www.pasco.com/
Develops probes for data measurement and accompanying data analysis software.

Vernier Software and Technology - http://www.vernier.com/
Develops probes for data measurement and accompanying data analysis software.

VISUALIZATION, SIMULATIONS AND MODELING

• The Concord Consortium - http://www.concord.org/

Software developed for high school teachers and students

• Biologica – biology (genetics, population dynamics)
• Dynamica – physical science (Kinematics, Newtonian Mechanics)
• Connected Chemistry – chemistry (Gas Laws, atoms and molecules)
• The Molecular Workbench - chemistry

• Starlogo website (http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/)

Starlogo is a modeling program that contains sample projects in biology and physics that can be used with both middle schoolers and high schoolers. New projects can also be created using their templates.

• Thinkertools - http://thinkertools.soe.berkeley.edu/Pages/inquiry.html

Software developed for middle school teachers and students.

• Inquiry Island – guides students through the scientific inquiry process
• Force and Motion – provides interactive simulation of force and motion phenomena

• Worldwatcher - http://www.worldwatcher.nwu.edu

Atmospheric science/Environmental science for middle and high schools

• Virtual Dissections

There are lots of different virtual dissections available online. If you just search virtual dissection and your organism of interest, they will come up. For example, these two sites are available for frog dissection:

• The Interactive Frog Dissection - http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/
• The Virtual Frog Dissection - http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/

• Ecobeaker - http://www.ecobeaker.com/

This website contains interactive biology simulations for high school and college. You can download a free trial version, but in order to really use it you would need to pay for this. If you click on EvoBeaker, it does say they are looking for high school teachers to test out some new software. This may be one way to get the software for free.

• Evolutionlab - http://www.biologylab.awlonline.com/index.html

The website contains interactive biology simulations for high school and college. You can download a free trial version, but in order to really use it you would need to pay for this.